September 2016

If you had walked into Washington D.C.’s L’Enfant Plaza on the morning of January 12, 2007, you would have been ...

I have enjoyed a number of rousing conversations with more traditional colleagues about evidence (or lack thereof) of Divine revelation ...

My thoughts of late – perhaps provoked rather than inspired – have been about women. Specifically, women in the military. ...

Rosh Hashanah is coming. I know, because rabbinic colleagues are posting on Facebook about their daily preparation of sermons, and Jewish blogs ...

For me, it’s the river that won my heart.In the summer of 2007, I was traveling in a hot van ...

It’s the most magical time of the year.And it’s not Christmas.It’s Elul!I love the month of Elul because it is ...

I went shopping for a new tallit (prayer shawl) at two competing Boston Judaica shops last week. In both stores I ...

On Shabbat, the 2nd of Av, about a week before Jews across the world fasted to mourn the destruction of ...

My favorite Hasidic teaching is a teaching about prayer couched in a homily on Noah’s Ark. God tells Noah to make ...

Here’s another in our periodic Something Special About the South series! When I first moved to Jackson, Mississippi, I never ...